CTL Conference
Realizing Student Potential ITeach Conference
CTL offers one large statewide conference each year. The annual Realizing Student Potential ITeach Conference provides an opportunity for systemwide faculty to learn from one another and discuss the challenges of turning the latest research on teaching and learning into action in their classrooms. This combination of 2 conferences brings together more than 1,200 faculty and makes visible the work and the achievements of faculty teaching in Minnesota State Colleges and Universities classrooms.
2009 conference information
2009 conference summary report
CTL Conference History
In 1999, the Center for Teaching and Learning began offering faculty development opportunities by hosting statewide conferences to foster professional growth in teaching. Early themes included service-learning, assessment, diversity, humor in the classroom, the science of learning, and other topics-all based on input needs from faculty about their needs and interests.
Combined Realizing Student Potential ITeach Conference Topics and Keynote Speakers:
Realizing Student Potential ITeach Conference 2009
The Classroom: The Foundation for Building Community and Fostering Student Success
George Kuh, Center for Postsecondary Research
Pedagogy, Technology and Learning in Community
George Kuh, Center for Postsecondary Research and
Sally Johnstone, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Winona State University
Realizing Student Potential ITeach Conference 2008
Generation Next Comes to College Hardwired
Mark Taylor, taylorprograms.org
Engaging Todays First-Year Students: Challenges and Opportunities in the Classroom
Betsy Barefoot, Policy Center on the First Year of College
Realizing Student Potential ITeach Confernce 2007
Cancelled due to snowstorm
Realizing Student Potential Conference Topics and Keynote Speakers:
2006
Panel Discussion: Defining and Fostering Student Success
Cathy Wurzer, Moderator; Carol Ley, Trustee; Michael Bolton, Trustee; Deb Henton, Saint Paul Public Schools; Carlos Mariani-Rosa, Minnesota State Representative; Mark Wallert, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Michael Schaitberger, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development; Raymond Lou, Southwest Minnesota State University; Linda Russell, Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
2005
The Ethics of Access: Developmental Education, Faculty Leadership, and Moral Accountability
David Taylor, Dean of the General College at the University of Minnesota
2004
Teaching in Academically Diverse Classrooms
Stephen Brookfield, University of St. Thomas
2003
Minnesota Demographic Change and Higher Education
Tom Gillaspy, Minnesota State Demographer
Changes and Challenges: Lessons for Teaching and Learning
Patty Wheeler Andrews, Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Why We Teach
Lawrence Moe, Metropolitan State University
ITeach Conference History
In the late 1990s, course Web sites began to be developed and e-learning became a common word heard on campuses. Faculty-many eager, some skeptical-began asking for more information on how to use technology to improve their courses and student learning. Conference topics then expanded to include the 'information highway', asynchronous learning environments, research on effective engagement of online students, and information literacy.
CTL and Instructional Technology (IT) began in 2000 to jointly sponsor an annual meeting on instructional technology; from 2001 on, it has been the 2-day annual conference, ITeach: Best Practices in Teaching with Technology. From 2001-2005, ITeach attracted more than 350 faculty and instructional technology staff from around the state. At ITeach, the creativity of faculty in using online and classroom technologies to improve student learning was on exciting display. With the advent of Minnesota Online, "the Guide to Online Education from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities" (and a new co-sponsor of ITeach), more and more faculty began to teach fully online classes. ITeach offered them, as well as technology neophytes, a place to gather and learn from one another.
Past ITeach Conference Topics and Keynote Speakers:
2005
Rita-Marie Conrad, Florida State University, author of Engaging the Online Learner
Marc Prensky, author of Digital Game-Based Learning
2003
A. W. "Tony" Brown, University of British Columbia, author of Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Education
David Brown, Wake Forest University, author of Using Technology in Learner-Centered Education
2001
Susan Ko, Sylvan Technology and Steve Rossen, UCLA, authors of Teaching Online
Brian Fitch and Alec Kirby, University of Wisconsin, on "Closing-the-Distance Education
